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Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.
E. L. Doctorow
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E. L. Doctorow
Age: 84 †
Born: 1931
Born: January 6
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Edgar Laurence Doctorow
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
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Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
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I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
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